Lee Hutchinson is the senior reviews editor for Ars Technica. He lives in Houston and he’s a Texan. He likes to shoot guns. So, when a press release arrived in his inbox offering him a smartphone screen protector made out of bulletproof glass, he did what any right-thinking, enterprising, Texas-based tech reviewer would do.

He received two samples, put one on an iPhone 4, then shot it with a gun.

Just before the start of Christmas week, I wrote that I was considering dropping the daily Linkposts here. They take a lot of time for the traffic they get, time I’d like to spend on my primary job at the Mighty Houston Chronicle, which is handling social media. I’ve decided that I’ll end the Linkposts [...]
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If you’re an Internet user, chances are you know about the GIF, an image format that predates the World Wide Web. It was invented in 1987 at CompuServe, then a largely text-based online service. GIF stands for Graphic Interchange Format, and to say it has withstood the test of Internet time is an understatement. A
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Last year was a banner one for personal technology, with big stories dominating the landscape. From Facebook’s botched IPO, to the introduction of a redesigned iPhone and a smaller iPad, to the overhaul of Windows’ interface, 2012 was a helluva year for tech news. And because we can count the number of times any given
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